Dawn Turner Trice

The Obama administration's economic stimulus package has inspired comparisons to the Works Progress Administration efforts of the 1930s. After I visited a new exhibit at the Carter G. Woodson Library,...

As President Obama and his family moved into the White House last week, they brought along Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother. Made total sense to me. For the first 11...

4 a.m.: The alarm sounds in my hotel room in Alexandria, Va., and I get ready to attend my first inauguration. 4:30 a.m.: I leave the hotel dressed in layers...

The young men I spent time with on Monday from Chicago's Urban Prep Academies were dressed in their school uniforms: blue blazers, khaki pants, starched white shirts and red ties....

On Sunday during the "We Are One" concert, I stood on the Mall watching people of all races and age groups, who had traveled from all over the world to...

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) reminded us last week that his old-school "identity politics" and President-elect Barack Obama's "post-racial" politics, for the moment, well, coexist. That appears to be a...

What does it mean to be authentically black? When Democratic U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush said last week that an African-American should fill President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat, he didn't...

What are your New Year's resolutions for you or someone else? Julie Deardorff I don't normally make resolutions. But in an effort to get my life back in 2009, I'm...

My Christmas tree is, well, gaudy. In our living room, she stands, back straight, nearly 12 feet tall. She's got thin limbs and broad hips. And the color, forest green,...

A lot of readers have asked why the media are intent on referring to President-elect Barack Obama as our first African-American president when, in truth, he's biracial. One reason we...